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Microsoft is opening Thursday a research lab in New York city that aims to benefit from interaction with the academic and tech communities in the metropolitan area, as well as attract new talent to Microsoft, the company said. Most of the initial 15 hires to the lab are researchers from Yahoo Research.

BT has launched a new cloud service dedicated to scientists working in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

$4,829 per hour isn't "cheap" but a 50,000 core supercomputer would cost up to $25 million.

DARPA has launched a Robotics Challenge, a high-tech contest that will award as much as $34 million in prize money in various categories, for robotics hardware and software development tasks that can be ysed in emergency response situations.

A science institute in central Japan says it has devised a system to stop eel fraud using cheap DNA testing, as the summer surge in the foodstuff's popularity approaches amid a scarce local catch.

There's a lot of space debris caught within the Earth's orbit. This includes everything from dead satellites to rocket parts, and when two pieces of debris collide, it can break up into even more, even smaller pieces of space trash.

More than a dozen international IT firms have partnered to create Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud, which will be used by European researchers to provide cloud-based computing support for scientific discoveries.

Researchers at MIT have developed what they're hoping will be something of a pharmacy on a chip.

A Georgia Tech researcher's deep dive into some half a million Enron emails could some day result in smarter messaging software.

Here at GeekTech, we’ve seen our share of lasers used for anything from art to shooting down freaking missiles. But, one that “cools”?

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